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FIRST EX-LUFTHANSA BOEING 747-8 HAS OFFICIALLY JOINED THE USAF TO SUPPORT NEXT-GENERATION AIR FORCE ONE TRAINING. The aircraft is D-ABYD, a Boeing 747-8 delivered to Lufthansa in August 2012—making it roughly 13.5 years old, but with significant structural life remaining. Its final commercial flight was LH455 from San Francisco...

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